The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-09-06
FATE OF THE ANARCHISTS.
Another Week will Decide Wheth.
er or Not They Will Hang
fOrTheir Awful Deed.

Chicago, August 30.-A week from to-
day the fate of the Anarchists now con6D-
ed in the comfy jail will be made public.
The Supreme court meets at Ottawa on
Tuesday next, and the decision on the APP
peal will be among the first papers to be
handed down. As the fatal day approaches
the condemned men are evidencing nuner-
GUS signs of anxiety and although it is
given out by their friends that they are
confident of securing new trial, their
actions belle the statement.
Sheriff Matson. moreover, is uot q whit
less anxious than the prisoners themselves.
He breads the task which he will be called
upon to perform should the law be per-
mitted to take its course and he is credited
with having on several occasions expressed
to intimate friends his fears that should
the Anarchists swing his own life would
pay the forfeit. That is to say he
is profoundly impressed with the con-
viction that a policy of revenge will be
inaugurated by the sympathizers of the
doomed men, and that his own name would
be among the first on the roll of retalia-
ton. Meanwhile it is given out that ar
raugements have been made by which the
sheriff will receive advance notice of the
character of the decision, and should it be
unfavorable to the prisoner. they will at
once he searched and placed in seperate
cells. The visits of friends and relatives
will also be stopped, and every possible
precaution will be taken to Illustrate any
scheme or plot for their release or the es-
cape of any one of the number. The Nc
Garigle episode has taught the sheriff a
valuable lesson and he does not propose to
be caught the second time.
Just what step will be taken should the
decision of the Supreme Court point in the
direction of the gallows is a mooted ques.
ton. Counsel say that they will endeavor
to get the case before the Supreme Court
of the United States, but some of the oldest
and most experienced members of the Chi
cago bar DO not hesitate to aver that there
is not solitary feature in the case which
would warrant a Justice of the Supreme
Court in issuing writ of superseadas. If
this view of the matter proves
correct, nothing remains but an APP
peal to the executive clemency of
Governor Oglesby. Little is expect
ed from this court of last resort,
although the defense committee which will
resume its work Wednesday if the decision
is against the defendants, say that the APP
peal will be backed up with a petition
miles long and the signatures upon them
will represent every state and territory in
the Union. President Cleveland cannot
possibly interfere in the case although there
is talk to the effect that his interposition
will be asked. Nor is il within the bounds
of reason that the German or English gov
ernments could be induced to plead for the
lives of the prisoners, who not having
broken off the yoke of allegiance, are still
natives OF those countries. In short the in
dieations are that the supreme court is the
only bar between the condemned men and
the satisfaction of the law aud that should
the decision be handed down, and sustain
the verdict of the court below, there is no
power on earth that can or will prevent the
Haymarket tragedy being expiated upon
the scafToId.